| Dinner Parties and Curtains |
[Apr. 3rd, 2008|10:38 am] |
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So I've been spending a lot of time thinking about that other life, this week.
You know, the one on Bayshore with lots of pretty textiles and beautiful colors and dinner parties?
I think part of it is just dealing with end of semester stress, and part of it is some kind of post-wedding depression. Without the wedding to plan, I don't have anything else to occupy my thoughts except the rest of my life -- which is way too big and doesn't really lend itself to saving inspiration photos and making spreadsheets. Planning a "hey we won the lottery" dream house is a happy passtime for now.
(As an aside, I had a dream the other day about serving some slices of our wedding cake to Anthony Bourdain. He liked it.)
We went to Ikea last weekend and bought a crapload of new furniture that I absolutely love. It helps the apartment feel so... so full, and so real, and so ours instead of his and hers. (The apartment has been "ours" for a long time, but I hadn't been able to shake the feeling that it was someone else's apartment and I was just existing there. I think I was harbouring residual anger over two or three pictures being put up without my input.) So now the apartment is feeling more and more like home, and my color ideas are starting to exist in a more concrete sense -- a lot more blue than green, as it turns out, but that's mostly because we haven't painted any walls and that's where a lot of the color would be.
The upstairs reading room is finished, pending a rug, and we have quickly created and completed a dining area. It seats four, so we can actually invite people over to eat and play board games now, instead of having everyone plopped on the floor. Not that there's anything wrong with being plopped on the floor, but it isn't entirely friendly on one's knees.
The living room is going to be our next project -- we are hoping to get the couches re-upholstered, though I keep changing my mind every 5 minutes about what I want them to look like, and Vince says he won't know until he sees some samples.
And some day, we will have curtains. |
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